Data Domain 3300 Update
I love big Data Domains, don’t get me wrong. When you take an appliance like the Data Domain 9800 that…
Basics – Change and Growth
I assume you’ve heard of the wheat and the chessboard problem. It often gets presented as part of the history of chess, or as…
10 from 10: 10 years of blogging, 10 years of epic data protection changes
Some blogging history On 25 January 2009, I published the first article on what was then the NetWorker Blog: How…
Basics – Estimating Cloud Tier Movement
When it comes to extending to object storage for long term retention, you really can’t beat Data Domain. Cloud Tiering…
Basics – Using nsradmin with NetWorker Policies
NetWorker 9 saw the introduction of the service-catalogue like Policy/Workflow/Action configuration engine in NetWorker, which replaced the previous group based…
Reflections on 2018
In my first post for 2019, I spent a little bit of time talking about the key trend we’re going…
Hello, 2019
Hello, and welcome to 2019. I’m still getting my head around that. It still seems that it was only a…
Data Protection Suite 18.2
Introduction Earlier this month, Data Protection Suite 18.2 was released. This covers: Avamar Data Protection Advisor (DPA) Data Protection Central…
Australia demands an end to data protection
Normally on the data protection blog I talk about data protection as it applies to functions such as backup and recovery, CDP,…
Staging Systems vs Backup Systems
Do you want a backup system, or a staging system? This might seem like an odd question, but I’m asking…